On 06/05/2017 09:28 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 06/04/2017 10:29 AM, Jos Vos wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Do CentOS 7 installs not automatically use a closest mirror for >> installing like Fedora does, or is that due to the way I'm starting >> the install (virt-install)? >> >> Background: >> >> I'm trying to find the best way to do installs using basic local media >> (network install, but *without* the need to download the squashfs.img >> for every install) but without a full local mirror. On Fedora (25), >> it works fine using a local boot.iso (virt-install -l), but with >> CentOS 7 you then have to manually enter a repository URL. >> >> I also tried a local kernel/pxeboot tree with LiveOS/squashfs.img >> (the latter similar to Fedora's install.img?) with no result. >> > > Yes but .. closest mirror only gets as detailed as per country. > > If you want to add a local mirror to that, then a yum config file change > to add a baseurl to the repo file would be required. Then fastestmirror > would pick the fastest from mirrorlist (10-15 listed machines per > country) and the added local mirror, which would always be fastest > unless it was offline, etc. Actually, I don't KNOW if anaconda will use mirrorlist as a URL in CentOS-7
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